Why Is Tom Robinson Important In To Kill A Mockingbird

The novel To kill A Mockingbird is an award-winning story narrated by the fictional character Jean Louise Finch also known as Scout. In the beginning of the book you learn about many people one of those is a family named the Ewells. They live by a dump that Tom Robinson has to pass by to get to work. Occasionally Tom would help Mayella Ewell with her daily chores. Tom Robinson is a very hard working and sympathetic black man. Tom Robinson helped her because he felt sorry for her. Later in the book Tom Robinson started to helped Mayella when she started to kiss him. Bob Ewell saw her doing this and yells at her. After this Tom Robinson is accused of the rape of Mayella Ewell by Bob and Mayella. She tried to save herself by lying about Tom,
Tom was shot seventeen times. He tried to escaped because he was hopeless, he knew that a whites word no matter how they were thought of is more trustworthy than a kind hard working black mans. If Tom had not been sent to jail he would not have felt hopeless and tried to escape. Tom knew that with the jury having no trustworthy evidence and calling him guilty made him feel that there was no possible way to win the case. “We had such a good chance he said… I guess Tom was tired of white men’s chances and prefered to take his own”(Ch.24 Pg.235) . If Tom would not have been sent to jail he would most likely have had a life filled with fun and joy instead of having no life at
Well if Mayella had told the truth there would be no way she could be beaten by her father because he would be in jail for abusing Mayella. Mayella had a choice to make she could do the right thing and tell the truth or she could do what she did and lie under oath. “Mayella Looked at her father, who was sitting with his chair tipped against the railing. He sat up straight and waited for an answer.(Ch. 18 Pg.183). Mayella had the perfect chance to tell the jury the truth about how her father beats her but she did not instead she denied it which contradicts her earlier statement of “He does tollable, ‘cept when … Except when nothing said Mayella” (Ch.18, Pg.183).

Mayella starts a domino effect that kills Tom Robinson after he was imprisoned in Jail which was caused by her untruthfulness to a jury. This all started when Tom Robinson helped out Mayella Ewell. He was trying to do a good dead. It all went downhill from there for Tom. He was falsely accused and charged of rape. He was sent to jail and eventually killed while trying to get away. Tom Robinson's case shows the message that good seldomly wins over